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In part 2 of this series we found a SQL injection vulnerability using static analysis. However, it is often advantageous to debug a target application, a capability that we’ll need when working with more complex exploits later on.

In this segment we won’t be discovering any new vulnerabilities, but instead we will focus on configuring and using our debugging environment. For this we will be using Qemu and the IDA Pro debugger. If you don’t have IDA you can use insight/ddd/gdb instead, but in my experience IDA is far superior when it comes to embedded debugging.

In part 1 we used the TEW-654TR’s TFTP service to retrieve the administrative credentials to our target system.

But what if we didn’t have access to the TFTP service? Many embedded devices don’t have a TFTP service, or there may be a firewall between us and the target that blocks traffic to UDP port 69. In this case, we’ll have to take a closer look at the web application running on the target.

So far our tutorials have focused on extracting file systems, kernels and code from firmware images. Once we have a firmware image dissected into something we can work with, the next step is to analyze it for vulnerabilities.

Our target is going to be the Trendnet TEW-654TR. We’ll be examining many different security holes in this device, but for part 1 we will focus on gaining initial access given only a login page and nothing more. We will assume that we do not have physical access to the target device, nor to any other device for testing or analysis.